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• What impact did the event have on your life?

• How did the event impact your leadership abilities?

• How did your values evolve as a result of the event?

• Did this event contribute to making you a great leader? If
not, how did it shape you?

• What motivated you at these different points in your
past? What motivates you today?

3. Once you have identified those key highs and lows, start to
connect the dots. What do the highs have in common? The
lows? Do they reaffirm a vision you have of yourself or tell
you something about your values and motivations that
hadn’t occurred to you before?

4. If you can, turn to a trusted colleague, friend, or partner,
and discuss your leadership journey. Ask them how they
believe the dots connect and why. Ask them which of their
perceptions of you have made sense in the context of these
events. And ask them what new perceptions they have
about you as a result. Then think about or talk about
what these findings tell you about where you want to go
from here.

Reframing Your Beliefs

Like anything, any lifelong habits and beliefs that you know are not
working for you can be difficult but important to address. Our brain
can become hardwired in certain beliefs and assumptions, which can
make it hard to change. It takes considerable effort and commitment
to rewire our counterproductive or less helpful beliefs, assumptions,